Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:24:10 -0500 From: Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz> To: stevefranks@ieee.org Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: new vanilla system fails to install many packages/ports Message-ID: <488A366A.4090901@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <539c60b90807241729y6d88e899g5d2acd739c6ad65e@mail.gmail.com> References: <539c60b90807241547x6abefbaepc8ce9a84784b44d5@mail.gmail.com> <48891697.707@daleco.biz> <539c60b90807241729y6d88e899g5d2acd739c6ad65e@mail.gmail.com>
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Steve Franks wrote: > On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 4:56 PM, Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz> wrote: >> Steve Franks wrote: >>> I must be missing something obvious. About 25% of my dependencies >>> fail to install with errors like: >>> >>> "install-info: /usr/local/info/dir: empty file" >>> "pkg-add: command 'install-info --quiet /blah.info' failed" >>> >>> system is 7.0/i386 >>> >>> Steve >> "info" is GNU-related. Any reason that GNU-stuff, esp. >> "info", wouldn't have been installed/built thus far? >> (I dunno, but, maybe a csup with the GNU stuff rejected >> or commented out ...) >> > > All I did was a "developer" (not x developer) sysinstall off 7.0 disk > 1. No tweaking, hacking, or extra packages until I got a clean boot > onto the new disk. I'm somewhere between user and power user. I have > 5 running freebsd systems under my belt, and was going to do my laptop > (I've given up on it several times already - bloody compaq). > >> And anything these ports have in common (assuming they're >> all GNU for starters). They aren't Linuxolator stuff? >> > > Seems to me, they all use gnuinfo instead of manpages? I don't even > know what gnuinfo is, nor linuxulator. > Right, GNU programs may have manpages, but they also have "info" pages which were developed by GNU as a replacement for the UNIX manual (I'm assuming based on past reading ... memory ain't all it used to be). "Linuxulator" or however it's spelled is just a colloquialism for the FreeBSD linux emulation. I've got few guesses for ya. "Developer" package has documentation, correct? Or not? What's "ls -ld /usr/local/info" give? > (!) Bison won't even install (makes fine, but install fails), and > that's pretty darn basic, no? > > Steve Yup, 'tis. Tho' I figure someday BSD'ers would like to have their own implementation. Again, just a guess. KDK -- When all else fails, EAT!!!
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